Scott C Edmunds

The best thing about it is everything is listed in Thai and French, and so is a great way to learn French insect vocabulary. Les Sauterelles sound like a fancy wine or something you'd get in a fancy patisserie

Officially your favourite deep fried insect cart. As seen in Phitsanulok train market.

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

This is totally ajil (nuts). A Cornish deli, supported by the Duchy of Cornwall, tried to trademark the word used by >1BN speakers of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Persian, Dari and Pashto word for greens or veggies www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

Most people skip the Sukhothai West temple complex but they were my favourite as you really get to explore the forests and countryside

Datos abiertos o Muerte, Venceremos! Cuban Data Publishing Versus Oropouche Virus Data mobilization versus vector borne disease: a new data paper on Oropouche virus vector spread in Cuba show the potential for this approach in tackling emerging virus-associated infectious diseases.

Have a new post on data mobilization campaigns versus vector borne disease. Proud in helping publish a data paper just out on Oropouche virus vector spread in Cuba that shows the potential for this approach in tackling infectious diseases
scedmunds.substack.com/p/datos-abie...

Adventures in AI City, Pt2: The AI-fication of Chinese Healthcare and the Zheijiang Lab More musings from a magical mystery tour of the AI-highlights of Hangzhou, including the Zheijiang Lab and the Sir Run Run Shaw "smart hospital".

Another write-up on my recent magical mystery tour of the AI sights of Hangzhou. Adventures in AI City, Pt2: The AI-fication of Chinese Healthcare and the Zheijiang Lab substack.com/home/post/p-...

This ain't Mashad, this is the Takia Yokhin Mosque just south of Ayutthaya. The oldest mosque surviving the period of Persian residency, pilgrims still come to burn incense and drink holy water at ttomb of a venerated Muslim aristocrat named Chaokhun Takia or Sheikh Amad Maimum

The shrine and bridges are all that remain of the original Indo-Iranian quarter on the island of Ayutthaya. Now completely covered by the Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University campus

This ain't Isfahan, these are the Wanon and Dinso bridges in the old Indo-Iranian quarter of Ayutthaya close to the Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad.

This ain't Shiraz, this is Tomb of Sheikh Ahmad Qomi in Ayutthaya. The Persian merchant who settled in the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the early 17th century, founding the still powerful Bunnag family in Thailand.

Adventures in AI City: The end for the International Conference on Genomics? Coming back from the AI hub of Hangzhou and BGI's ICG, I thought I would provide a write-up of my impressions and thoughts from the trip, especially on if this was the end of the road for ICG?

Finally completed a write-up of #ICG20 in Hangzhou, as I thought I'd give my thoughts on what happened in AI city scedmunds.substack.com/p/adventures...

Despite health problems James Watson filmed a video 2yrs ago for the BGI ICG meeting (which they just showed again at #ICG20) where he was still looking forward to solving difficult problems. Even then he couldn't help go off script to talk about girls and tease Crick's failure in neuroscience #RIP

Thank you Francis for all you've done for the journal. We put in a lot of effort to build up an excellent and very experienced Ed Board, and seeing so many of them resigning in this manner is sad but shows they've taken their responsibilities seriously.

Got a pretty good view of the Wat Nang Chi “Pulling of the Buddha’s relic” procession on the Khlong Dan canal this morning

Enjoying the DataCite-OpenAlex webinar right now. Interesting seeing the heavy use of the API from places like India

Organising the First Ever iNaturalist Bioblitz in Myanmar: The Jacana Project Art + Science Exhibition This weekend if you are in Yangon don't miss this event at the historic Secretariat, which is helping Citizen Science take flight in Myanmar

New post wearing my @citsciasia.bsky.social (and Burmaphile) hat: Organising the First Ever @inaturalist.bsky.social Bioblitz in Myanmar: The Jacana Project Art + Science Exhibition scedmunds.substack.com/p/organising... #citizenscience

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name.

The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

I’m in Bangkok this weekend but remotely helping to organize what I think is the first ever iNat bioblitz in Myanmar

Sam Sen Nai Philatelic Museum really going all in for their Halloween “You’ve Ghost mail” weekend

Robots seeing you off at Hangzhou airport. Including unmanned ice-cream dispensing freezers #ICG20

We made it to the end of #ICG20 and Huanming Yang is talking about what next year should cover. Maybe this isn’t going to be the last meeting after all!

Another genome project filling the evolutionary and taxonomic gap, Qin Song presented on spirulina algal genomics #ICG20

Now up is plant biotechnology pioneer Marc Van Montagu talking about awaking life in the desert #ICG20

Make room for the mushrooms. Interesting factoid - China has 1789 edible and 798 medicinal mushroom species. Producing 80% of the world’s mushroom output #ICG20

Now up is Fuqiang Yu from KIB on a new project, the 10K Macrofungi Omics Initiative. Very under sampled. There are 2.2-3.8M fungi, but only 150K mushrooms and other macrofungi #ICG20

Talking about the commitment to #opendata, but Harris also stressing the care they are taking to meet CBP obligations, ABS policies on use of Digital Sequence Information #ICG20

Harris taking about the scaling, phases and estimated cost recently updated. See the recent paper in Frontiers covering this in more detail ttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsci.2025.1514835

Getting the origin story of the EBP from Harris, and the scoping meetings at the Smithsonian (I remember that first big meeting there well) #ICG20

Harris Lewin giving us a big overview of the Earth Genome Project at #ICG20

Xiaolin Li, AI chief scientist at Hangzhou Institute of Medina showcasing their ScholarClub multi purpose AI agent for research #ICG20